Information processing apparatus and information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019308317-A1
Application number	US-201716467597-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Dec 1, 2017
Priority date	Dec 16, 2016
Publication date	Oct 10, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

There is provided an information processing apparatus and an information processing method that enable agents with different skills to cooperate with each other to efficiently execute a task, the information processing apparatus including: an allocation section configured to assign at least a part of a task to two or more agents on the basis of a skill model indicating a skill of each of the agents. An information processing method includes an allocation step of assigning at least a part of a task to two or more agents on the basis of a skill model indicating a skill of each of the agents. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an agent system in which a plurality of agents cooperates with each other to execute a task.

First claim

1 . An information processing apparatus comprising:
an allocation section configured to assign at least a part of a task to two or more agents on a basis of a skill model indicating a skill of each of the agents.

2 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a presentation control section configured to control presentation of information regarding at least one of the task and agents.

3 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the presentation control section controls presentation of a skill of an agent capable of increasing efficiency of the task.

4 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the presentation control section controls presentation of a skill necessary for the task.

5 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the presentation control section controls presentation of skills of agents configured to execute the task.

6 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the presentation control section further controls presentation of a skill of an agent capable of serving as an addition or a replacement.

7 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a communication section configured to receive, from each of the agents, a work report that includes information including: an action executed; a state before execution of the action; and a reward for the action.

8 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 7 , further comprising:
a learning section configured to learn, on the basis of the work report, data to be used for allocation of the task.

9 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the learning section learns a type of a skill defining the skill model on the basis of a result of clustering of data distributed, the data including a combination of the state and the action and being generated on the basis of the work report.

10 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the learning section learns data indicating a skill necessary for each of tasks on the basis of the work report.

11 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the learning section learns the skill model of each of the agents on the basis of the work report.

12 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a communication section configured to receive the skill model of each of the agents.

13 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the allocation section assigns at least the part of the task to the agents further on the basis of a state of each of the agents.

14 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the allocation section divides the task into a plurality of subtasks and assigns the subtasks to the agents.

15 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 14 , wherein the allocation section further divides the subtasks into actions and assigns the actions to the agents, the actions being execution units of the agents.

16 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an execution section configured to execute the task, wherein each of the two or more agents includes the information processing apparatus.

17 . An information processing method comprising:
an allocation step of assigning at least a part of a task to two or more agents on a basis of a skill model indicating a skill of each of the agents.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Noda Atsushi
• Tanaka Yasufumi
• Kobayashi Yoshiyuki
• Matsunaga Hideyuki
• Takamatsu Shingo

Classifications

• G05B2219/39167

  Resources scheduling and balancing · CPC title

• G05B2219/39117

  Task distribution between involved manipulators · CPC title

• G05B19/4187

  by tool management · CPC title

• B25J9/0084

  comprising a plurality of manipulators · CPC title

• G06F9/50

  Allocation of resources, e.g. of the central processing unit [CPU] · CPC title